Mendon Historical District Study Committee

The purpose of this committee is to explore the possibility of creating an official historic district within the town of Mendon.

At their meeting on October 5th, 2015 the Board of Selectmen voted to establish a Local Historic District Study Committee under MGL Ch 40C consisting of three to seven members. The committee shall make an investigation and report on the historic significance of the buildings, structures, features, sites or surroundings included in such proposed local historic district or districts as the committee

07/05/2017

A little known fact: Much of the Declaration of Independence was taken from a series of resolutions passed at a Mendon town meeting in 1773.

http://www.hope1842.com/mendonresolves1773.html

Annals of Mendon - Resolves, 1773

05/05/2017

Please come tonight and vote yes! Preserve our history for our future!

Mendon's Annual Town Meeting is Friday May 5th at 7pm at Miscoe. Please consider attending and participating. For those not familiar with town meetings the open town meeting form of government is one of the unique features of New England Towns in which all registered voters have the ability to voice their opinions and make decisions on the budget and other important topics.

You can view the warrant here:http://www.mendonma.gov/sites/mendonma/files/agenda/agenda-file/atm_may_5_2017_final.pdf

You can also view the proposed FY18 budget here:http://www.mendonma.gov/sites/mendonma/files/report_of_the_finance_committee_2018_small.pdf

"I am more and more convinced that, with reference to any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than what the city thinks. The city does not think much. On any moral question, I would rather have the opinion of Boxboro than of Boston and New York put together. When the former speaks, I feel as if somebody had spoken, as if humanity was yet, and a reasonable being had asserted its rights — as if some unprejudiced men among the country's hills had at length turned their attention to the subject, and by a few sensible words redeemed the reputation of the race. When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town-meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States."
— Henry David Thoreau,

04/27/2017

The public hearing for the district will be tonight at 7 PM in the town hall

04/22/2017

Check out the official proposal for the district on the official town of Mendon website

www.mendonma.gov